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How do u make BitTorrent download faster? i have been searching the answer for days.
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wiseguy77
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24. February 2007 @ 16:23 |
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Hey, Im kinda new at this.
I have utorrent and i've been have dl speeds of 7kb/s, how can i make it go faster, I did the speed test and found out that my dl speed is 8275kbps and upload speed of 611kbps.
These r my setting on utorrent.
global max upload: 22kb/s
global max download:70kb/s
gobal max of conn.:750
max # of conn. per torr: 100
Max # of upload slots: 8
max active dl: 8
Max active torr:8
I have also forward a port utorrent and shutdown my win firewall.
What do i do?
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biggermac
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25. February 2007 @ 00:48 |
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Originally posted by wiseguy77:
Hey, Im kinda new at this.
I have utorrent and i've been have dl speeds of 7kb/s, how can i make it go faster, I did the speed test and found out that my dl speed is 8275kbps and upload speed of 611kbps.
These r my setting on utorrent.
global max upload: 22kb/s
global max download:70kb/s
gobal max of conn.:750
max # of conn. per torr: 100
Max # of upload slots: 8
max active dl: 8
Max active torr:8
I have also forward a port utorrent and shutdown my win firewall.
What do i do?
22 kb/s means 22 kbps (small letter b for bits), and 22 kB/s (large letter B for Bytes) is the same as 176 kbps. 8 bits = 1 Byte.
Your speeds are excellent. But your torrent setting is way off. But rememeber that a torrent musat be well participated in to get good download speeds (all are different).
Set torrent upload speed to 80% of your max. 600 kbps = 75 KB/s (large or small k OK). 80% of 75 KB/s i think is 60 KB/s. Set your torrent upload speed to 55 to 60 KB/s that's plenty. Dolwnload max can be unlimited, but you'll probably never do much better under the best circumstances of 2 Mbps same as 250 KB/s same as 2000 kbps. Be happy with 75 KB/s download speed.
Does your torrent program give you a green light or a yellow light? Yellow usually = a firewall problem. Are you on a home network by any chance (router = hardware firewall too).
AS far as global this or that, I don't even know what it means so that's confusing. BitTornado is not.
Let me add that in most cases (rule #1) you must upload well to be able to download well. And it takes time to get going well too because at first you have nothing to offer others so you have crappy uploading and so you see apply rule # 1 as to why download is slow at 1st..
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14. March 2007 @ 14:31 |
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Hey hows it going guys, first time reading your forum and its got a lot of great info. Ive been using Torrents for a while now and have been very lucky not to have run into to many problems. Im trying to run ABC Bittorent Client 3.1 through 2 routers that ive set up and am having quite a bit of trouble getting in the "green". All the torrents ive setup have all had no imcomming connections "yellow". But my previous Setup it was all good. Im able to setup the port folwarding on the router connected to the PC thats running the torrents but im not quite sure how to setup the other router. Ive been reading through tons of posts you guys have and havnt come across anything yet to resolve the issue. Also ive been getting Dissconnects that usually occure when you have to many peers/connections going on, but i have that set down to a minimum and still am getting DCed from time to time and have to reset the connection. Ive dissabled all firewalls as well and checked to make sure the ports are oppened for the connection. I'll keep trolling around for a solution but if anyone can help me out that would be awesome. =)Thanks in advance and sory for the long post.
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biggermac
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14. March 2007 @ 15:13 |
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You might want to ask in another thread, as this one is pretty much dead for several months except for a few posts.
I am not clear on the two routers thing, I've not come across using more than one router before. Seems like it should work though, but I would think if you are going to use multiple routers what's the good of using two with one going into the other unless it's a wiring issue with the computersd far away from the main boss router.. So can't help here, but even if I knew, each router is different and the port forwarding menu can be easy to find when you log into the router, or might be harder to figure in some brands. I'd think you'd want to port forward the same ports in each router. Netgear's router (I have) menu is very easy and even has hints and explanations when mouse-over). However, if I set up one computer with port forwarding on it, those ports are not good on any other. I have to use diffferent port forwards, so using BitTornado allows me to use any ports (there are about 65000 ports). I would not use the "suggested" port range for torrents. Use ports like 55678 etc.
(replying to below quote)Originally posted by arlucard:
Hey hows it going guys, first time reading your forum and its got a lot of great info. Ive been using Torrents for a while now and have been very lucky not to have run into to many problems. Im trying to run ABC Bittorent Client 3.1 through 2 routers that ive set up and am having quite a bit of trouble getting in the "green". All the torrents ive setup have all had no imcomming connections "yellow". But my previous Setup it was all good. Im able to setup the port folwarding on the router connected to the PC thats running the torrents but im not quite sure how to setup the other router. Ive been reading through tons of posts you guys have and havnt come across anything yet to resolve the issue. Also ive been getting Dissconnects that usually occure when you have to many peers/connections going on, but i have that set down to a minimum and still am getting DCed from time to time and have to reset the connection. Ive dissabled all firewalls as well and checked to make sure the ports are oppened for the connection. I'll keep trolling around for a solution but if anyone can help me out that would be awesome. =)Thanks in advance and sory for the long post.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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arlucard
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14. March 2007 @ 19:26 |
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Yeah, the thing is with the folwarding is that it only gives me the option of folwarding to ip addresses within the routers scope. Like with router 1 i can only folward ports to 192.168.1.# and router 2 (the router that needs the ports open) doesnt fall under the restrictions of router 1. I cant get to the ip address i need which is 192.168.2.3
I tried setting the port folwarding to the actual ip address of router 1 which is 192.168.1.1 and it didnt work :(. So im kind of stuck, your right when you said the distance is a problem. I tried to setup a wireless array but im going from one house to another with a 40 foot wire. I setup the other router because i have multiple computers at the second location. Pretty much the thing i need to find out is what IP address i need to set with the port folwarding for router#1 so it can allow router#2's folwarding to pass through router#1. Also im still having trouble with the connection being dissconnected even with the incoming connections set low.
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biggermac
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15. March 2007 @ 05:38 |
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Like I said, I know nothing of networking with more than one router. If you type into Google: two routers used in sequence, stuff comes up. You need to talk to a person who sets upstuff like this I suppose. Goog Luck..
Speculating - can't you set up both routers with all of the same ports forwarded?
Maybe router number one should be something caled a "hub" and not a router. I don't know, but they used to have hubs.
(original message below):Originally posted by arlucard:
Yeah, the thing is with the folwarding is that it only gives me the option of folwarding to ip addresses within the routers scope. Like with router 1 i can only folward ports to 192.168.1.# and router 2 (the router that needs the ports open) doesnt fall under the restrictions of router 1. I cant get to the ip address i need which is 192.168.2.3
I tried setting the port folwarding to the actual ip address of router 1 which is 192.168.1.1 and it didnt work :(. So im kind of stuck, your right when you said the distance is a problem. I tried to setup a wireless array but im going from one house to another with a 40 foot wire. I setup the other router because i have multiple computers at the second location. Pretty much the thing i need to find out is what IP address i need to set with the port folwarding for router#1 so it can allow router#2's folwarding to pass through router#1. Also im still having trouble with the connection being dissconnected even with the incoming connections set low.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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chineze
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i need help on how u make bit torrent faster... i have taken firewall out of it n it the max is only going to 25kb.... that is to slow...
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biggermac
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Originally posted by chineze:
i need help on how u make bit torrent faster... i have taken firewall out of it n it the max is only going to 25kb.... that is to slow...
Wow.. Too much information. Just great, you've really narrowed it down.. NOT!!
I don't even know if you're using a PC or Mac.. You really need to post just about everything you can, from operating system tyo program used and color light status color, ports used, etc.
...So here you go, just reposting something written over a year ago in this thread.. Hope it helps. I don't claim to be an expert. Justv Observations and use
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1) What program to use
Use a torrent program that implements a colored light system (or other system) that informs you of status as you download. The two I know that use a colored light system (I am sure there are others) are BitTornado (I use), and Azureus. This is because most problems are a firewall problem and the user will have a yellow light - you want a green light.
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(2) Firewalls.
A firewall is a blocker or filter. You can send stuff outbound (upload), however they will block most ports for incoming (think of a port as a hole for stuff to get in and go out). Firewalls are now necessary because there is so much evil stuff written that is trying to harm your computer - it is just floating around on the Internet and trying and trying to find a hole to enter your computer.
Almost everyone runs a Program that is a firewall (software firewall). But if you use a router, by the nature of it's duties, it becomes a hardware firewall. You can use a router and also run a software firewall, but running 2 software Firewalls will probably cause problems. Running a router only can be sufficient, but you do not get the bells and whistles a software firewall gives you. Example - For an old P3 running Windows 98 computer on my home network, no software firewall is used, the router seems to do OK as a firewall. And by the way if you download torrents regularly, you know they can take hours or all day, an old $80 computer like my Windows 98 one I just mentioned, even one at 500 MHz, is plenty good enough to download torrents so you don't tie up your main computer and have response slowdowns with it. Another Example (no bells & whistles) - The router firewall won't pop up a window and say "such and such tried to infiltrate your computer", nor will it say anything about outgoing that you never used before and are just using for the 1st time (it won't ask you if it is OK go ahead and let it connect)..
Port forwarding: this means open a port for incoming. So in reference to a torrent program, you must "port forward" in a firewall that port or those ports that your torrent program uses. Now you see, if you have a router (hardware firewall) and are running a software firewall as well, you must open up the ports used in both Firewalls not just one.
Now there is another way to open up ports. This is only for software Firewalls and only affects a software firewall.. You can just exclude your torrent exe program from the firewall. All ports will be open when you run the torrent. Here is an example - if you use Windows XP's firewall, click on control-panel/firewall, and you'll see one of the commands you can click is "Exceptions". In there listed are programs like Yahoo Messenger. You need to add your torrent program to the list.
Norton anti-virus 2005 .. Since I run Norton SystemWorks 2005 which has anti-virus in it, I know the anti-virus program itself runs a firewall, but it does not call it such. It probably asked you when you 1st installed Norton if it was OK to shut off the XP firewall (or any I suppose) and you probably ticked "OK do it". So, you've got to find where to add to exclude or ignore your torrent program if you didn't tell it OK before. (look for the "options' tab to be able to change/add things).
Finally on Firewalls and ports - don't use the default ports of 6881- 6889 (or whatever they are). There are 65000 port or so. Use a port or ports range above 20000. Me, I use ports in the 55000 range. If you only do one torrent at a time (recommended) you should only need to use one port (they call it a listening port I believe) and not a field of ports. (At least one port is all I need for BitTornado.). Plus remember - if you are using a router and especially used as your only firewall, then the more ports you forward, you increase the chances of some kind of a security breach when surfing the Internet.
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(3) Download one torrent at a time (until you become good at it and recognize when 2 at a time would work better).
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(4) never use any "automatic" setting.
For Example - In BitTornado by default the max upload speed is ticked to be automatic, so instead choose slow or fast DSL/cable which then will allow you to tweak the numbers it adds in the max upload speed box (and the max uploads or connections box). (See next for what numbers).
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(5) You must upload well to be able to download well
Very important rule: The whole peer to peer torrent style network is based on people not being able to "cheat", meaning you cannot choose to not share in the upload process and still be able to download fast. So remember that you must upload well to be able to download well. The faster you upload the faster you'll download (in theory).
I'd guess that most of us in the United States who have broadband (1/2 of computer users here perhaps??) can upload at 250 Kbps (31 KB/s) either with cable or fast DSL. I have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload and it's becoming more common (I have cable & 4000 Kbps down). When I had 250 Kbps up (3000 down) I did OK, really, just about as well as with my higher speeds I have now.. The DSL speeds and plans will vary a lot more than cable speeds and plans. There are different types of DSL that work a bit differently than other types. Some people have DSL then find out they only have 350 Kbps download and 80 Kbps upload or something similar. OK for surfing quickly, but for torrents, not good. Since dial up is 56 Kbps up and down, that 80 or 100 Kbps upload you might have is not that much faster than dial-up.
Don't think because you have a 2000 Kbps (2 Mbps or 225 KB/s) download rate or more means that you should be getting that when you download. Even with great upload speeds an average of 600 Kbps (75 KB/s) download speed is very good. Some really popular torrents, with seeds up the butt to like 50 seeds and 50 peers and you can get 1 Mbps download (1000 Kbps / 125 KB/s). I've gotten 2 Mbps a few times. Once I hit 3 Mbps and I do not know what was going on there.
You actually are never downloading a solid speed - what you are doing is getting uploads from others and the torrent program combines the pieces. If you are getting a fast 1 Mbps download rate (125 KB/s) you are really getting uploads from several other computer sources which like you have limited upload rates..
Speeds will always be slow when you start out, and show a yellow light. You must get enough of a torrent to be able to begin to share before your upload speed starts going up, and after your upload speed starts going up give it a few minutes and your download speed should start to increase. You should get a green light after you have several people joined and start to upload faster (say maybe 5 minutes into the torrent).
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(6) Kbps, KB/s, Mbps - wtf is all of this?
(a) Kbps and KB/s are vastly different speeds or transfer rates. It is not the slash ( / ) that makes the difference, it is the large letter "B" Vs a small letter "b". OK remember B = Bytes and b = bits. It takes 8 bits to equal a byte. Everyone always used to use Kbps (bits) and the ISPs (Internet service providers) I've seen always use (appropriately so) Kbps too. I do not know how B and Bytes got started, but now everyone is confused. Torrent programs want speed entered in KB/s and your ISP tells you in Kbps. You must convert to put a value in a torrent program. Divide Kbps by 8 to get KB/s. If you have 200 Kbps upload then for the torrent program that is 25 KB/s.
-There is one more step though before you add in your max upload speed into a torrent program.
(b) Torrent programs need to use some upload bandwidth to work right. If you entered in all of your upload speed into the max-upload-speed box in the torrent program, it I going to choke when it reaches speed up past 80% of that. A rule of thumb is to only tell a torrent program 75% to 80% of what your actual upload speed really is. This leaves the extra 20% to the torrent program which needs it to work well in. OK. If you know you have 25 KB/s upload speed, 80% of that is 20 KB/s. Put 20 in the max upload speed box.
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(7) Maximum uploads (not maximum upload speed)
Leave this to 4 unless you know 5 or 6 might be better. (experiment later once you've gotten good download speeds). I'd say don't tick it up past 4 unless you have 400 Kbps (50 KB/s) upload capability, but research more on this if you want to add more connections.
Still in reference to connections (or "max uploads" in BitTornado, and not "upload speed") I am guessing here with a slight hint of knowledge - I believe this is the number of computers you are uploading to at one time. And if for example, you upload at 25 KB/s, then 4 computers should be receiving from you about 6 KB/s each.. If you tick 5 connections then 5 computers get 5 KB/s each, however if you serve too many computers, each receiving less a chunk of good speed upload from you, it might effect the formula that the torrent programs use to determine if you are uploading well and then stiff you of download speed.
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(8) I believe older computer operating systems like the Windows 98 line does not understand UPnP. The torrent program might have UPnP turned on. Also in your router (if you use one of course) you might have UPnP on or off. It might be worth experimenting with these settings. I myself have shut off UPnP in my torrent program and in my router, and even on my Win XP computer it seemed to work well downloading a torrent.
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(9) Different torrents are going to be different speeds - even if you download two different ones in a row (one after the other was finished) and they had the exact same seeds and peers numbers, one might download at 800 Kbps (100 KB/s) and the other at 400 Kbps (50 KB/s), you never know.(
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(10) Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) tries to stop WORMs. Before they could proliferate with many connections at one time. In so doing this SP2 fix, it limits (I think) what might be called "half connections" to 10 (research this further yourself, terminology might be wrong on my part). Unfortunately this causes havoc with older style P2P programs, and might effect your torrent speed too in such a way as that if you lose a computer in your group that was uploading to you, getting connected to another source might take a while, and you'll see your speeds vary a lot as you watch during a download. There is a so-called "fix" called the LVLord fix. Google "LVLord". This fix involves entering automatically into your registry do be careful save your registry before you run it. Put in "1000" into the field instead of 10. You will get a warning when you run this fix, and if you get afraid and abort, of course the fix won't work. If you do at some point ever be infected with a WORM, you will be a big source of the problem.
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(11) Some settings you change might not go into effect until you close your torrent program and open it up again. For example in BitTornado on the main page I can change the upload max speed setting OK and it does into effect immediately, but if I changed on a 2nd page the ports used, that wouldn't go into effect until the next time I open BitTornado.
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15. March 2007 @ 20:38 |
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hey biggermac, i am using bitcomet 0.84...ive disabled my firewall settings, i dont really kno much about ports, but as u said we shud use a port above 20000, so i opened port 30000, im using dsl connection 57 KB/s download, 21 kB/s upload......but yet i am not getting more than 25 KB/s. What am i doin wrong, can anyone help me...plzzzzzz
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biggermac
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You are saying what your upload speed setting is.
I don't know bitcommet. Use a torrent program that has a colored light status system like BitTornado.
Your upload mac in the torrent program should be 75% to 80% of your max. so like 17 KB/s. This might not allow good download speeds. It's minimal. The program might think you are holding back. If you never changed anything it might be set at 25 (25 kB/s) max upload.
Are the torrents you tried popular or just one seed and a few peers? This too matters a lot.
Your info is still very minimal.
Originally posted by fido08:
hey biggermac, i am using bitcomet 0.84...ive disabled my firewall settings, i dont really kno much about ports, but as u said we shud use a port above 20000, so i opened port 30000, im using dsl connection 57 KB/s download, 21 kB/s upload......but yet i am not getting more than 25 KB/s. What am i doin wrong, can anyone help me...plzzzzzz
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16. March 2007 @ 06:14 |
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You are saying what your upload speed setting is.
I don't know bitcommet. Use a torrent program that has a colored light status system like BitTornado.
Your upload max in the torrent program should be 75% to 80% of your max. so like 17 KB/s. This might not allow good download speeds. It's minimal. The program might think you are holding back. If you never changed anything it might be set at 25 (25 kB/s) max upload.
Are the torrents you tried popular or just one seed and a few peers? This too matters a lot.
Your info is still very minimal.
Originally posted by fido08:
hey biggermac, i am using bitcomet 0.84...ive disabled my firewall settings, i dont really kno much about ports, but as u said we shud use a port above 20000, so i opened port 30000, im using dsl connection 57 KB/s download, 21 kB/s upload......but yet i am not getting more than 25 KB/s. What am i doin wrong, can anyone help me...plzzzzzz
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Since im here i'd like to post a question: Ok, i know that ur download speeds on bittorrent will never reach ur maximum, like my max is around 972kbs, i know when im downloading something i'll never reach that much, but i heard somewhere that to get the REALLY max that ur dl speed can be u have to divide that number by 8, so i did that i get like 121kbs, but my download hardly ever reach that much, im always around 45kbs, sometimes it reaches 100, but rarely. i also know that i dont CONNECT to a lot of the users even though there are a bunch of them on the list. How can i connect to more users so that i can reach my max speed of 121kbs.[/quote]<br>
Ok, Their is 8 bits in a byte. Your ISP tells you your speed in Bits so you think you can go faster than you really can. For instance my optus cable is 10 megs a sec line speed. This means my max download is about 1.27 megs a sec. But that doesnt mean im going to download at my max speed. You have to remember you will go as fast as people can upload. People cant upload as fast which means it will affect your downloads. Its not your speed its just the uploads from where your downloading from, thats why the more seeds it has the faster it should go since your downloading from more people so you will get alot faster download.
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21. March 2007 @ 12:30 |
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i deleted your 1st post, next time use the edit buttom on right side of you post that looks like a pencil & paper
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1.27 Mbps, or about 1250 kbps (?) or like about 150 kBps (kB/s)..
I think I'm close on those.. anywho - you can reach your max because it is lower. It's not like a cable or fast DSL of at least 3 Mbps or 3000 kbps (reached once by me). It depends on your upload speed - torrent programming was written so you can't do nothing for uploading like the other P2P stuff - rule 1 is you must upload well to be able to download well - you see, posting your upload speed is most important because if you've got a crappy upload max, in most cases (not all) your download will suffer too.
Where is the cutoff between "sufficient" upload speed and crappy? I dunno, but lets say it's at 256 kbps or in torrent terms 32 kB/s. Now the torrent program needs to use 20% of that to work well and if you set it too high your speed will suffer too - so about what - 25. 25 KB/s upload max inside the torrent program. Even maybe your max being 200 kbps should be ok just rememeber to round down to 80% of that...
More important - each torrent is different - only one or two "seed(s)" (full copy/ies)? then no matter what it might be a crappy download, unless your nearly alone in the group.
Try a super popular download, like that has 25 or more seeds and double that or more peers (file-sharers). A movie comes to mind, but that is probably a copyrighted movie so don't, it's not legal. With something like this (popular) I could reach at least 1 Mbps on popular torrents, and 2 Mbps was rarer but not all that rare..
AS far as your firewall - wow, a torrent program that takes care of it for you which none never did when I was torrenting - yes, normally you'd have to manually take care of it. 2nd, if you are on a network, like even a home network - behind a router, the router is most likely a firewall - a hardware firewall, and you need to log into the router and "port forward" (disable or let it use) the port, or port range, set up in the torrent program. ,, many torrent programs had a colored light status system and if the light was always yellow and never turned green, you probably have a firewall problem.. I used BitTornado.. worked great.
..also, let it be known that I am not an expert ...and I as mentioned, I've been out of torrenting for quite a while now (things might have changed).
(you wrote:)
Originally posted by ValiumMm:
Since im here i'd like to post a question: Ok, i know that ur download speeds on bittorrent will never reach ur maximum, like my max is around 972kbs, i know when im downloading something i'll never reach that much, but i heard somewhere that to get the REALLY max that ur dl speed can be u have to divide that number by 8, so i did that i get like 121kbs, but my download hardly ever reach that much, im always around 45kbs, sometimes it reaches 100, but rarely. i also know that i dont CONNECT to a lot of the users even though there are a bunch of them on the list. How can i connect to more users so that i can reach my max speed of 121kbs
Ok, Their is 8 bits in a byte. Your ISP tells you your speed in Bits so you think you can go faster than you really can. For instance my optus cable is 10 megs a sec line speed. This means my max download is about 1.27 megs a sec. But that doesnt mean im going to download at my max speed. You have to remember you will go as fast as people can upload. People cant upload as fast which means it will affect your downloads. Its not your speed its just the uploads from where your downloading from, thats why the more seeds it has the faster it should go since your downloading from more people so you will get alot faster download.
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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It's not like a cable or fast DSL of at least 3 Mbps or 3000 kbps (reached once by me).
No you clearly have not got 3000 kbps. Do you mean 3000 KB/s or 3000kbps . if it was 3000KB/s then its wrong u cant get that speed its not possible not even adsl2 can go that fast. If it is 3000kbps then that is possible but thats about 375KB/s. which isnt bad i guess.
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ok i'm sorta new not new to this bittorrent stuff my connection is 5 megabits a sec but then i heard about rule of octates or something my friend was saying so this is what i put for my port for bittorrent i put it for port 30000, 4 megabits for upload and max for download i am not behind a router i am jsut using a modem and im downloading this torrent 8 peers and 2 seeders i am downloading at 3KB/s it is uploading the files onto my comp at 4 KB/s and i am sharing my files to everyone at 64KB/s of what i've downloaded of it this far i am using sygate personal firewall and i have no idea how to port forward it.. so i'm not sure if it's port forawrded cuz even if i take down the firewall the speeds dont increase or decrease and i tried the lvlord thing it didnt make a difference in speed at all as i see it so if u have any idea on how to make it download faster thanks a million!
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22. March 2007 @ 19:44 |
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I'm not sure what you are saying kind of rambling a bit there, so go to dslreports.com and run a test. And keep in mind you're seeking your maximum UPload capability, it looks like your download speed is more than you'll ever be able to use.
Once you find your maximum upload speed, and keeping in mind kbps and kB/s (or kBps - a large B vs a small b) are different speed reporting techniques, you set, in your torrent program, to 75% to 80% of your maximum capability. If you set upload speed to high vs capability you can choke your download speed as if you didn't set it high enough.
And by the way a 2 seed torrent can be the pits, depending - so find a popular torrent that has like 25 to 30 seeds then see what happens.
(you wrote): Originally posted by miz:
ok i'm sorta new not new to this bittorrent stuff my connection is 5 megabits a sec but then i heard about rule of octates or something my friend was saying so this is what i put for my port for bittorrent i put it for port 30000, 4 megabits for upload and max for download i am not behind a router i am jsut using a modem and im downloading this torrent 8 peers and 2 seeders i am downloading at 3KB/s it is uploading the files onto my comp at 4 KB/s and i am sharing my files to everyone at 64KB/s of what i've downloaded of it this far i am using sygate personal firewall and i have no idea how to port forward it.. so i'm not sure if it's port forawrded cuz even if i take down the firewall the speeds dont increase or decrease and i tried the lvlord thing it didnt make a difference in speed at all as i see it so if u have any idea on how to make it download faster thanks a million!
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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miz
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22. March 2007 @ 20:05 |
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for some odd ass reason i got these results...
Your current bandwidth reading is:
1.39 Mbps
which means you can download at 177.55 KB/sec. from our servers.
i dunno if that was the test u wanted me to do i cudnt figure out where on the fricking site to find any other test
Red X slicing and dicing a new path for justice in this corrupt world, the question u want to ask yourself is are u as pissed off as i am?
~Red X~
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miz
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22. March 2007 @ 20:14 |
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ok i found the right one Download speeed: 2519 Kb/s
and upload is 515Kb/s
u can chekc it out thru dis link below...
<a href="http://speedtest.dslreports.com"><img border=0 src="http://www.dslreports.com/im/26621234/4300.png"></a>
Red X slicing and dicing a new path for justice in this corrupt world, the question u want to ask yourself is are u as pissed off as i am?
~Red X~
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miz
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22. March 2007 @ 20:24 |
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oh ya cud it also be possible becuz i am seeding 6 other torrents????
Red X slicing and dicing a new path for justice in this corrupt world, the question u want to ask yourself is are u as pissed off as i am?
~Red X~
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biggermac
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22. March 2007 @ 22:51 |
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P2P means Peer to Peer - file"sharing". You have to participate with the torrent process (in most cases) and you can't hold back, and those that have crappy upload maximums won't be able to download well because the program thinks they're freeloading a-holes.
You give pieces of the torrent file out to others while you take in other pieces from others too. If you didn't upload to others you could only download at a trickle - that's what torrents are all about. Basic rule is "you must upload well to then be able to download well - under most circumstances it means no freeloaders like you can do in other P2P type programs. That's why when you 1st start out the download is a trickle - because you don't have enough parts of the torrent to share (upload to others).
So about 500 kbps upload speed. Torrent programs use the kB/s - the B stands for a Byte, the small b - bit. 8 bits = 1 Byte. 500kbps = 500 divided by 8 = over 60. So lets say your upload speed in torrent language is 60 kB/s. Now put into your torrent program's upload max area 20% of 60 which is like I dunno, 48. Your upload speed is very good anything over 40 kB/s is really good.
If your program is confusing, try the ol' BitTornado. If you always have a yellow light instead of green then you have a firewall problem.
Originally posted by miz:
ok i found the right one Download speed: 2519 Kb/s
and upload is 515Kb/s
u can check it out thru dis link below...
<a href="http://speedtest.dslreports.com"><img border=0 src="http://www.dslreports.com/im/26621234/4300.png"></a>
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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miz
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23. March 2007 @ 06:12 |
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is it normal that my uploading whud be going crazy after i jsut put those settings u told me it's like 34, 36, 41 39, 38...... for my upload y isnt it being stable????? when i had my settings my upload was like 68.... and it was more stable dunno im just asking cuz it looks unstable and techncially llike u said the more i upload the mroe i download right well as well as the seeders right?
Red X slicing and dicing a new path for justice in this corrupt world, the question u want to ask yourself is are u as pissed off as i am?
~Red X~
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biggermac
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23. March 2007 @ 12:45 |
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If your program is showing true speed. I'd say yes it is normal - look, you're connected to several other computers, all working at different speeds, some leave the circle and then your computer might pick up another connected-to-partner in your circle of file-sharers.. Sometimes a speed report will show an "average" and so it just looks smoother than it is.
Download speed can fluctuate quite a bit too. This is because you have to remember that speed really is not speed - since you're connected to others, you're only getting a slower connection speed from each and your program is combining these and suggests you'd be at the speed it says as if you were downloading a file from one source... ...And too, your connected-to peers list is changing - this guy leaves the circle of file-sharers, this other guy a bit later becomes part of the circle, then another two leave, you latch onto another peer, etc.
Fluctuation doesn't matter - overall download speed does though -what speeds are you kinda averaging when downloading at, remembering it takes time to build up the pseudo speed..
Originally posted by miz:
is it normal that my uploading whud be going crazy after i jsut put those settings u told me it's like 34, 36, 41 39, 38...... for my upload y isnt it being stable????? when i had my settings my upload was like 68.... and it was more stable dunno im just asking cuz it looks unstable and techncially llike u said the more i upload the mroe i download right well as well as the seeders right?
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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miz
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23. March 2007 @ 15:01 |
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depeds the seeders like u say bot now im pissed no more seeders and peers for the thing i want wahhhhhhhhhh and only .70 copies were distributed lol.... i'm not going to state what it was noticing we can't talk about illegal stuff but yeah.... and i thot mininova.org woulda helped me out so i guess i mite have to download the same thign again but a diff downlaod link :S
Red X slicing and dicing a new path for justice in this corrupt world, the question u want to ask yourself is are u as pissed off as i am?
~Red X~
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23. March 2007 @ 22:59 |
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When you begin to download a torrent that has only a few seeds, you're gambling that a full copy (seed) will be around long enough for you to complete.. It also sounds to me like this a crappy download speed result even when there was a seed..
...McBigGuy@no-emailxxx.org
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